Brian Lowery is the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, author of Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”, and host of the podcast, “Know What You See by Brian Lowery.”  

Michael Krasny says of Brian Lowery: “The emphasis in my interview with Brian will be on self -- the idea of self and the functions it serves as well as the relationship between  self and freedom and the role of technology in expanding and containing self, the tension between structure and freedom.  Tied in and integral to all of that is the nature of how the social world shapes us and how race, gender, community and nationality serve to define us and our individual identity.”

Lowery received his doctorate in social psychology from UCLA in 2001, and has been on faculty at Stanford since 2002.  At the GSB, Prof Lowery is currently driving an initiative, Leadership for Society, to support the development of leaders for a diverse society. He was also recently named founding co-director of Stanford's new Institute on race. The mission of the institute is to "Produce cutting-edge research and solutions to realize racial justice."  

Lowery’s research has two major threads. The first thread examines the way people understand inequality, and the way these understandings affect their attitudes and behavior. The second thread examines the consequences of the reality that others shape our selves and we shape theirs. This work explores issues ranging from the nature of racial and gender identities to an understanding of the way others help us generate meaning in life. His work is published in a number of scholarly journals as well as captured in his book, Selfless: The Social Creation of "You". He also offers a course webinar open to the public, The Leadership for Society Series. All of which can be found at www.KnowWhatYouSee.com